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Patricia Borns Multimedia Journalist (904) 556-3147 [email protected]

Domino Fever (2012) http://vimeo.com/31951311 Double-sixes, double-nines, in creole, Espanol and patois, Miami plays dominoes with passion.

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Nixia’s Journey (2012) http://vimeo.com/38071849 Civil war drove Nixia Sagastume from El Salvador across the Guatemalan and Mexican borders into the U.S. Her journey from field hand to boss is shared by a growing number of Hispanic and Latino agricultural workers in Florida.

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A Bull Called Gangster (2012) http://vimeo.com//37519062 "Just like a man's man," is how Homestead Rodeo hands describe their star 2012 bull riding contestant. He's no ordinary athlete. Produced with Sam Thornton, Virginia Ansaldi and Jia Niu.

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An American Road Warrior (2012) https://vimeo.com/41220990 His bumper sticker reads: “Vietnam? We were winning when I left.” He and other vets of America’s most unpopular war find religion in their motorcycles and brotherhood.

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Web www.revolutionrevisited(dot)com Architected, video edited and tested this team-built website for Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Kim Komenich.

Web Launching soon: The Audacity of Beauty See the videos on Maggie Steber’s Vimeo page that will be part of the new site - https://vimeo.com/

user11443953/videos/sort:date Lead architect, video editor and usability tester for this team project.

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Redland Market dessert display (2012) Photography

Redland Market dessert display (2012) Photography

Redland Market espresso bar (2012) Photography

Crandon Beach merry-go-round (2012) Photography

Last days of Jimbo’s Place, Virginia Key (2012) Photography

Last Days of Jimbo’s Place, Virginia Key (2012) Photography

Boys soccer training on Crandon Beach (2012) Photography

Charlotte Jane Memorial Park Cemetery, West Coconut Grove (2012) Photography

Good Friday in West Coconut Grove (2012) Photography

West Grove Veterans Day (2012) Photography

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The last time we all vacationed together, mysisters and brother raced to the station wagon,calling ‘‘shotgun.’’ In the decades since, passen-ger-side airbags are just one of the changes thatreconfigured family travel.

So when Mom said she wanted to take us allon a trip to celebrate her 80th birthday, it was agift that challenged us to agree on a destinationand accommodations.

We thought we were unique in jug-gling the needs and desires of multi-ple ages and interests in one vaca-

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The young British fencing coach had left herfriends on the beach to go hiking. It was her first timein the Caribbean.

‘‘Hot weather doesn’t normally agree with me,’’ shesaid, nor, she admitted, had hiking. ‘‘At home it’s anolder person’s sport.’’

We met in the East Coast village of Bathsheba,where some 50 outdoors lovers had materialized likea scene from ‘‘Field of Dreams.’’ We hiked for fourhours, fumbling through light woods and lianas(woody tropical vines); crowding reverently into aformer slave chapel smothered in bush; laboring upMelvin Hill to a fisheye-lens view of the green Chim-borazo valley below; and over coral promontorieswhere Atlantic waves exploded in furies of spray.

Our guides, George Medford and Carl Fenty, re-minded us that the wind washing over us travelssome 2,600 miles across the ocean to this coast fromThe Gambia in West Africa and is some of the purestair in the world.

‘‘This track was part of the Barbados Railway builtto transport sugar cane and tourists,’’ said Fenty. ‘‘Itwent bust five times before ceasing operation underits last owner, the Society for the Propagation of theGospel in Foreign Parts. A first-class seat with cham-pagne cost 48 cents; when the train stalled, the thirdclass got out and pushed.’’

As we spilled down a heathered slope to the sea-scape of Cattlewash, raw and romantic in the Byronicsense, the fencer turned to me with shining eyes. ‘‘I’mdefinitely coming back here,’’ she said.

While Barbados can be enjoyed without ever leav-ing West Coast Highway 1, which is fringed withbeaches and hotels, a local passion for walking has

Pure air, pristine beaches,and miles of byways make

hiking eye-opening

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Here at Bottom Bay, on Barbados’s Atlantic EastCoast, begins the 5-mile hike to Crane Beach.

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Light from the table tennis room splashed on-to the outdoor shuffleboard court and showedmy niece that her team was losing — badly — to

her parents’ team.‘‘Mom, how come you’re only

good at a game for old people?’’groused the college student.

My sisters swayed to a steel-drum band play-ing poolside as my brother launched into an im-itation of our late grandfather, who used to plythe shuffleboard courts of Miami Beach. ‘‘Don’tvorry about it,’’ he said, adding a simulated cigarchomp. ‘‘I’m just playing with ’da boys.’’

Mom shook her head at her goofy clanof middle-aged baby boomers. Thenshe smiled and whis-pered, as if fearing ajinx, ‘‘It’s workingout very well.’’

Mom turns 80, kids play well togetherThe Netherlands’ centuries-old stampis visible on Willemstad, port capitalof Curaçao and a world heritage site.

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At the appointed hour, Captain Joe Mancino walked the dozen stepsfrom his bar stool at Tickles Dockside Pub to the ferry at D dock, usheringaboard workmen, schoolchildren, grocery-toting moms, and me. Within

minutes, St. Thomas’s clamoring harbor of leviathancruise ships receded, and we had entered the sanctuary

of Water Island, the smallest of the four main US Virgin Islands. The after-noon sea twinkled like diamonds. Palm trees waved from shore. Soonfriends were lifting each others’ provisions into waiting golf carts, and Iwas offered a ride up the steep hillside to Virgin Islands Campground.

‘‘Water Island is like small-town America was 50 years ago,’’ said Manci-no. ‘‘Everyone helps each other here.’’

Although four miles from St. Thomas, little Water Island (2 miles longby a mile at its widest) truly is a world apart. Its community of 160 consistsmainly of stateside expats all busily engaged in the tropical adventure of alifetime. Mancino moved here three years ago from Long Island and start-ed the ferry business. Heath Nowak arrived from Louisiana just a monthago with his family to start a new job. A long cast of characters has preced-ed them: Pirates once drew water from the ponds

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This is a plunge into bothwonder and worry. I have snor-keled and gone scuba diving in

the waters of Vir-gin Islands Nation-

al Park off and on for nearly 30years. I can string together myencounters with the Caribbean’smost colorful creatures like aNational Geographic special. Abrilliant green male stoplightparrotfish gives way to a red-bellied female. A school of jackswhizzes by in mid-water as anurse shark slowly patrols thebottom.

Southern stingrays and spot-ted eagle rays flap in aquaticflight past coral ledges whereschools of orange-red and pink-ish-red blackbar soldierfish hangmotionless, all pointed in thesame direction. Pancake-thingray angelfish and black- andyellow-spotted French angelfishswim through narrow openingswhile the glowing yellow-and-blue queen angelfish darts in

It’s our seato save, inall its stillliving color

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Top down: a gray angelfish,queen angelfish, hawksbillturtle, and yellow goatfish.

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Tram in Costa Ricarain forest offers itsriders a bird’s-eyetour of the canopy at180 feet. M3San Francisco to St.Barthélemy, thereare Destinationsjust waiting to wineand dine you. M2

Challah French toastat Red Rock Bistroin Swampscott, oneof 9 delectablebrunch spots. M5Lights, music, andmerrymaking markthe holiday festivalsthat greet andbrighten winter. M5

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Honeymoon Beach on Druif Bay is the place where Water Islanders meet for movie nights, potluck cookouts, and bingo.

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EVERGLADES CITY — As we slogged waist-deep into asoup of black water, the Cypress dome closed in, a wetgarden of epiphytes and silvered tree trunks so magical, Ialmost forgot the cottonmouth water moccasins lurkingout of sight.

‘‘It’s not dangerous?’’ a young Quebecer said as an alli-gator 30 feet away slithered closer beneath the water tocheck us out.

‘‘Yes, it is,’’ said Graham Mitchell, our guide. ‘‘But lessdangerous than driving a car.’’

Myth: Alligators hunt humans as food.

Reality: Alligators are afraid of humans but may attack underduress.

So began the unraveling of my misconceptions aboutthe Florida Everglades, starting with what and where theyare.

‘‘It’s about water,’’ said Mark Kraus of the EvergladesRestoration Foundation. ‘‘The Everglades are wetlandsthat historically flowed from the Kissimmee River nearOrlando into Florida Bay.’’ Although agriculture and de-velopment have shrunk them, the Glades are still gigantic:‘‘Everglades National Park is only a fraction. BiscayneNational Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, Fakahatch-ee Strand State Preserve, and Corkscrew Swamp Sanctu-ary are also the Everglades, preserved under differentagencies and names,’’ Kraus said.

With over 3 million acres, how do travelers take it in?Most see the Glades on high-speed ‘‘CSI: Miami’’-style


Tour operator Jack Shealy negotiates the ‘‘river of grass’’ on a skiff just large enough for two people and a cooler.

Ways to the GladesExploring the wetland by foot,airboat, canoe, and more,dispelling myths along the way

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By Beth D’AddonoGLOBE CORRESPONDENT

BRADENTON — Turn onto 12th StreetWest, and it’s clear that this isn’t youraverage neighborhood. Instead of theusual bungalows, there is a riot of limegreen picket fencing, a mural that pairsFrida Kahlo with an emaciated Christfigure, and a giant cow statue paintedblue. And that’s just within two blocks.

Welcome to Village of the Arts, a funkycollection of more than 35 galleries, stu-dios, cafes, and shops stretching between9th Street and 16th Street West, and 9thand 14th Street West in what was once arough section just south of downtownBradenton, 50 miles south of Tampa onFlorida’s Gulf Coast. Formerly a placeknown for crack houses and prostitutes,Village of the Arts started as a grass-rootsattempt to reclaim the neighborhood by afew brave artists in search of cheap realestate and a community. A decade later,what began as a social experiment hasbecome a reason for locals and visitors tospend time away from Bradenton’s sandybeaches.

Bonni Brown was one of the first tostake a claim. The former New York clin-ical social worker opened a bakery cafe inSeptember 1999. ‘‘We bought this placefrom a man arrested for shooting at crack-heads. Got a great deal.’’ Today, the 100-year-old building houses Bonni Bakes, afriendly spot to have fresh mango lassi, acurried chicken salad sandwich, and aslice of red velvet cake. ‘‘We still get localswho’ve lived here all their lives and say,

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Village Voices & Eclectic ArtEmporium is in Bradenton’s Village ofthe Arts, a reclaimed neighborhood.

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